Stella Parks's Bravetart. It isn't comprehensive but the recipes are fantastic and they work. Not simple but not super chef-y either. The things a beginner wants to bake are there. Also a section on homemade Oreos, etc. IMHO, the best straight chocolate chip cookie and brownie recipes I have baked.

This is my second biggest pet peeve about recipe writers. The top spot goes to baking recipes with volume measurements “because people don’t own scales” or worse yet recipes written in volumes and converted to weights mathematically without testing the weights recipe.

I have a real banger of a lecture on constitutional interpretation that I illustrate with a selection of cookies. Do you like this tollhouse cookie with no chocolate chips? Originalism is the theory for you!